Then-White House Press Secretary Jay Carney is pictured upon his arrival in Swanton, Ohio, U.S., September 26, 2012.
But the document shows that it was seen by Amazon as crucial to winning support in China as the company grew its Kindle electronic-book device, cloud-computing and e-commerce businesses. The venture – which eventually offered more than 90,000 publications for sale – hasn't generated significant revenue. site, – a project that came to be known as China Books. In a core element of this strategy, the internal document and interviews show, Amazon partnered with an arm of China's propaganda apparatus to create a selling portal on the company's U.S. That briefing document, and interviews with more than two dozen people who have been involved in Amazon's China operation, reveal how the company has survived and thrived in China by helping to further the ruling Communist Party's global economic and political agenda, while at times pushing back on some government demands. "We are not making judgement on whether it is right or wrong." Among them: "Ideological control and propaganda is the core of the toolkit for the communist party to achieve and maintain its success," the document notes. And the comments section is disabled.Īmazon's compliance with the Chinese government edict, which has not been reported before, is part of a deeper, decade-long effort by the company to win favor in Beijing to protect and grow its business in one of the world's largest marketplaces.Īn internal 2018 Amazon briefing document that describes the company's China business lays out a number of "Core Issues" the Seattle-based giant has faced in the country. Currently, on its Chinese site Amazon.cn, the government-published book has no customer reviews or any ratings.
But Amazon complied, the two people said. Ratings and reviews are a crucial part of Amazon's e-commerce business, a major way of engaging shoppers. Copies of the book "Xi Jinping: The Governance of China" are displayed at the Hong Kong Book Fair, in Hong Kong, China, July 14, 2021.
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